VW Beetle: Out with the flower power, in with the toothbrush moustache

Slideshow: VW Beetle 1.4 TSI Sport

Enzo Ferrari once described the E-type Jaguar as the most beautiful car ever
made. And even today, 51 years after it first sent a fizz down everyone’s
trousers, you can still turn more heads by driving down the street in an
E-type than you could if you rode into town on the back of a diplodocus.

The E-type has transcended fashion, and even Marilyn Monroe hasn’t been able
to pull that one off. Back in the day she was considered to be the most
beautiful woman in the world and she died before age wearied her. Today,
though, most young boys would describe her as “a bit fat”.

Buildings? Nope. I guarantee that all of those über-modern, über-cool houses
you see on Grand Designs will, in 20 years’ time, look absolutely
ridiculous. As stupid then as a 1970s house looks now. But a hundred years
after that they will all